On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Anivar Aravind <[email protected]>wrote:
> > And the notion of public good you are pushing does not include the > commons. Remember Software for commons will be always Free Software > > I suggest ITfc to withdraw from popularising this unwanted term . and > join with FOSSCOMM in spreading the Proper Term with clarity > > Anivar Actually everybody is free to use any term. ITfC may use this term for N number of reasons but the point of contradiction is with "the definition of the public software". If on their website, they declare it as "public software is Free Software", that will solve the problem. Or subset of Free/open software definition. Otherwise this debate will not stop. Also It is impossible to get/create community with 100% sync of thoughts. people may find different reason to work with fosscomm. for example, we have some strong supporter of "free software" on fosscomm but they always use the term "open source" mainly because of business purpose. We might have Creative Common Advocate/supporter who might want to use Microsoft Office to create creative commons books. All we need to find minimum manifesto of working and the TASK. As long as somebody is agree with minimum manifesto, they are part of fosscomm. In mumbai meeting me had some sort of resolutions and we declared also what is fosscomm and why we want fosscomm to exist. In my view fosscomm should not perform a strict role in syncing thoughts. The basic motive of fosscomm should be create common task force and greater community which believe in 4 pillar's of open technology. * Open Source / Free Software * Open Standards * Open Innovation (anti software patent, ant DRM etc) * Open Content Also most important, we need to make our stand in govt or policy making process so that we can put our voice or objections against technology restrictions. I think, we must decide and work on fosscomm.
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